31 Blood debt and blood payment
Really left the mountain village where he had lived for ten years, Sheng Xuan's heart was both excited and sad, but it was more about the longing for the outside world, and the hatred he was carrying, but this all the way down completely shocked him, he had been to Qifeng Town with Luo Shuangxi before, but this time he looked at it again and was full of depression, and there was no scene of the past, you must know that although this generation is not rich, the grain produced every year can also be exchanged for a lot of silver, and life is basically not bad, but now when I look at the sparse figures on the street, almost all of them are wearing patched clothes, and everyone is flustered, but it makes his clothes full of holes look very naturalγ Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
He was walking on the street, and suddenly heard a panic behind him, many open shops were also hurriedly on the door panels, and was about to ask what was going on, when suddenly a team of cool officials dragged an old man over, the old man was already covered with scars, and his neck was locked and clamped, almost dragged to the ground by these people, leaving a long blood mark on the bluestone, some people who didn't have time to run away all stood on the side of the street with their eyes down, and Sheng Xuan also hurriedly stood over.
I only heard the cool official in the lead shouting, "Everyone listens, Lord Pan loves the people like a son, sympathetic to the feelings, and does not want to use severe punishment to force taxes, but the state has national laws, and everything in the fields and shops has to pay taxes, which is inevitable, but some people openly resist, everyone looks at this old stone is an example, Lord Pan has no choice but to press him into prison, and today he is brought out to undertake according to the law, and let everyone see the end of not paying taxes." He swaggered down the other street.
After these people left, the people on the street began to mumble in a low voice, "It's too miserable, this old man will definitely not survive." "Hey, didn't you hear that there was going to be a lawsuit? That is to cut off the head. Someone next to him whispered, "You still care about people, think about yourself first, this time the tax is collected according to the head, each person wants one or two silver, at the end of the year we will plant the dozen acres of land, but one acre will have to pay five taels of silver tax, even if the grain is sold, it can't be made up, and now pay the poll tax, you say this, where can he make up the silver? Isn't this our life?" "Shhhhh Hearing this, the chatting people hurriedly dispersed.
Sheng Xuan listened strangely, although he was not very clear about things such as farming and paying rent, but he also knew that the annual field tax was only one or three yuan in the past, but now he had to pay five taels and pay the poll tax, which was basically equivalent to having no way for the people to live, no wonder he looked at these people with a depressed face.
Walking slowly along the street, looking up to see that it was a restaurant, although the door was open, but the business was very depressed, it is conceivable, where do people dare to enter the restaurant to eat now? Sheng Xuan walked here and heard that there was a drinking order upstairs, so he couldn't help but look at it twice with curiosity, just a guy came over, and hurriedly pulled him aside and whispered. Little brother, don't stand there, in case people see it, alas, look at you, I'm afraid you are begging, this year every family can't eat, then there is something for you, you better hurry up and go to other state cities to have a look, maybe there can still be something to eat. After speaking, he shook his head and walked back, Sheng Xuan hurriedly grabbed him, "Little second brother, I just heard you say that everyone can't eat, but I heard that there are still people upstairs who make fist orders?" Xiao Er looked around and saw that there was no one, and couldn't help spitting, "It's not TMD's dog servants, who else dares to enter the hotel now besides them?" At this moment, I heard a shout inside, "Xiao Er, where did you die, and you didn't serve wine to your uncle." "Alas, here it is. Xiao Er said yes and hurriedly ran into the store.
Sheng Xuan slowly turned to the back of the hotel, saw that no one hurriedly jumped on the eaves, and then leaned down and stuck to the window to listen to the conversation inside, only to hear one person say vaguely, "Was it the old stone parade just now?" I heard that voice as if Zhao Tou was shouting there, this kid can really speak, we can't talk about him. "That's right, it's an old stone, this old thing I think is born cheap bones, our Lord Pan fell in love with their girl, it was the creation of their family, this old thing didn't want to, in the end, how did he go to prison, don't say, the girl still belongs to Lord Pan hahaha, what do you say this is not cheap?" "Haha, I said it's also cheap, okay, let's ignore him, it's hard not to send a few of our brothers to drink a few things today." Then there was a shout of punching from inside.
Sheng Xuan listened to the anger and bumped upward, what kind of servants are this? It's just a beast that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, and that Lord Pan is rampant and wants to occupy the people's daughters, such a person should kill him and eliminate harm for the people, thinking of this, he couldn't help but grit his teeth and wanted to rush in as a result, and as a result, a few officials were inconvenient, and he thought about how inconvenient it would be to do it during the day, so he pressed his temperament and jumped down from the restaurant gently.
After going around the restaurant for a while, these officials had not finished drinking, and when they heard the wine being kept being served, Sheng Xuan turned around and looked inside secretly, Xiao Er was holding a jar of wine to go upstairs, and heard the boss shouting, "Xiao Er, the dishes in the back are ready, hurry up." Xiao Er pouted and walked over, "Boss, what do you say, what are you talking about, they come to eat and drink every day, and how many times have they given money? The boss raised his hand and gestured, but he didn't fight, "Alas, don't say it, let's go and serve the food." As he spoke, he followed him into the kitchen.
Sheng Xuan saw that there was no one around, and suddenly his eyes rolled to a bad idea, and he rushed over to take down the wine jar, and then quickly opened the wine jar, "Let you dog things taste the hot master first, and then clean you up at night." He quickly urinated, and when he heard movement behind him, he hurriedly took the wine jar back, and then rushed out of the restaurant.
The night finally deepened, with the faint moonlight Sheng Xuan touched the backyard of the yamen, and when he went up to the wall, he saw that there was a big dog crawling underneath, he hurriedly retracted and patted his chest with his hand, "This dog thing almost made me bump into it." He jumped on the wall in a different direction, and when he saw that there was no movement inside, he floated into the courtyard.
The yamen is not big, but it is very regular, and the blue brick house behind it is also clean, Sheng Xuan took a few steps to a window with light, only to hear someone shouting inside, "Come to Shun, did the little stone girl agree?" "Damn, it looks like I have to force Lao Tzu to be tough. "Hehe, master, these sluts are this temper, I think it's better to be hard, and I'm afraid that she won't be obedient when it's done, hehehe." The two of them laughed wickedly, "Okay, you go down to sleep first, and I'll go over by myself later." "Alas, all right, sir, then the slave will go down first. β
Listening to the servant who called Lai Shun out of the door, Sheng Xuan quietly clicked the window paper and looked inside, only to see a fat-headed and big-eared man wearing a silk suit and pouring himself a drink, when the man turned half of his face, he suddenly found that this person seemed to have seen there, with Sheng Xuan's ability to never forget, as long as he has seen a person, he will definitely remember, "Where have you seen it?" suddenly remembered that this was not an officer and soldier who went to raid the house at that time? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but bite his steel teeth, took out the sword and cut off the window lattice, and then rushed in.
The man was startled when he heard the movement, but before he could get up, a cold sword was already on his neck, Sheng Xuan said fiercely, "Dog thief, do you still recognize your master?" The man hurriedly turned his face, looked carefully, and suddenly opened his mouth to shout, but was kicked in the chest by Sheng Xuan, and immediately kicked him into a ball and lay on the ground unable to shout, Sheng Xuan went up and stepped on his chest, "Today I will let you pay for your blood debt." As he spoke, he raised the sword in his hand and was about to slash down, but suddenly stopped in mid-air, "Look at you like this, you should know a few words, as long as you write down clearly who the people who went to my house to commit murder that day, and now they are all there, the master will consider how to deal with you." As he spoke, he scraped his face with his sword.
The sharp ghost whistle had already shaved off the hair of the man's sideburns, so frightened that the sweat on his face dripped down a fat face, and pleaded, "Little master, spare my life, I was also forced to do it at that time, which General Cheng, ah no, it was Cheng Lao Thief who forced us to do it." "Without further ado, if you don't write it, I'll cut off your dog's head with a sword." "Ah no, I write, I write. β
The fat man trembled and wiped his sweat while writing his names crookedly on the paper, don't look at the handwriting is not very good, but he remembers the names very clearly, and he was busy for nearly half an hour and finally wrote all the names, Sheng Xuan saw that there were more than 100 people, these people were all promoted, and the youngest were all from Yixiang, "Are everyone here?" It's all here, most of us were originally brothers who mixed together, and we used to have contacts and now we have nothing to do and move around often, so there will be no mistake, little hero, do you see if it's γγγγγ" Before he finished speaking, Sheng Xuan had already raised his sword and fell, and his fat head suddenly flew into the air, and then he tore off the bed curtain and rolled it up, just blocking the blood that spurted out, and at the same time wrapped his head in it, carried it in his hand, and turned around and walked out from the main door.
Out of the door to look around, found that not far away is the residence of the officer, Sheng Xuan carried the sword directly into it, and killed the evil officials in his sleep with a few swords, and then jumped on the beam of the county hall and hung the fat man's head on it.
At this time, the enemy of the sword couldn't help but make him feel a lot happier in his heart, and just wanted to leave, he suddenly remembered that there was still the daughter of the old stone still locked up here, since he had already killed the dog officer, it was better to let the girl go, so he turned back and began to look for it from room to room.
When pushing open a hut, I suddenly found that several old mothers were sitting around a girl, because the doors and windows were tightly sealed, there was no light outside, and when these people saw Sheng Xuan coming in with a sword, they couldn't help but make a mess, "Kill, but these people have no grievances, no revenge, no killing, they have seen their faces." When he was hesitating, several old mothers had already knelt on the ground with a brush, kowtowing like pounding garlic and begging for mercy, Sheng Xuan gritted his teeth and shouted, "Get out." These old mothers ran out as if they had been amnestied.
"Girl, go too. The girl cried and said, "Little hero, I can't go, if I go, the γγγ dog will kill my father." Sheng Xuan's heart sank, this girl didn't know that her father was dead, "Don't worry, I have killed that dog official, you can go home quickly." Hearing this, the girl was stunned at first, relieved herself for a long time, and then got up and ran quickly into the night.
After this commotion, Lai Shun was alarmed, and as soon as Sheng Xuan went out, he heard Lai Shun shouting sharply, "Come on, someone, kill someone." Sheng Xuan rushed over in two steps, just wanted to stab him to death with a sword, suddenly a black shadow rushed over, he hurriedly flashed, and found that it was he who began to meet the vicious dog, as soon as he raised his hand to hit the door of the head, poof, the vicious dog was killed without even humming, and Lai Shun fainted when he saw it.
Sheng Xuan's heart flashed, he went over and carried Laishun into the house, picked up the teapot and poured a pot of tea on his head, only to hear a sound of Laishun waking up, but the sword around his neck almost made him faint again, "Your lord must have looted a lot of money, as long as you tell me where I put it, I will consider what to do with you." "Sheng Xuan never said to let anyone go, just so as not to let himself fall into the reputation of gaffes, if he dies and becomes a ghost, it is not fun to entangle himself.
When Lai Shun heard this, he hurriedly said, "Little hero, I was forced, all the bad things were done by the master, he is not humanγγγγγ "Don't talk nonsense, where is the treasure?" "In, in, inγγγ in the account room, I can take the little hero to get it." β
"Go" said and pressed Lai Shun to the account room, only to see a big iron door in the room neatly stacked with several large boxes, Sheng Xuan waved his sword and cut it one by one, and suddenly the room was reflected in the jewels, I didn't expect this small Qifeng Town to be able to let him scavenge such a large sum of money, Sheng Xuan immediately put them all into the ring, Lai Shun couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, trembling and said, "Little hero, you can let me go." All that answered him was the cold blade.
After being busy in the middle of the night, I felt hungry at this time, and suddenly remembered that the vicious dog I had just killed was very fat, and it was a pity to throw it there, Sheng Xuan hurriedly went over a few times to get out two pieces of meat, found the kitchen and lit a fire to put the dog meat on the shelf, and after a while, there was a burst of aroma.
After eating, he suddenly came to the spirit, Sheng Xuan knew that it would be dawn in a short time, and someone would definitely find out about it at that time, and I was afraid that there would be another incident, so he packed up his things and went all the way out of Qifeng Town.
Sheng Xuan carefully formulated a route of revenge according to the list, although he successfully killed the enemy several times, but someone saw his dress, and suddenly the two sides of the gate of the prefecture and the county were plastered with notices wanted for him, so he found a clothing appraisal shop and bought a few clothes at random, and bought a lot of dry food and drinking water, so that he could change his clothes at any time and was not afraid of starvation on the road.
In this way, he picked up the remote roads all the way, changed different clothes, and constantly changed his role, one would become a rich boy with a generous hand, and the other would be a student studying with a sour face, although he encountered some cross-examinations along the way, but he was cleverly mixed up.
Sheng Xuan observed the terrain during the day, and then found a place to recuperate, and at night he changed into a black dress and covered his face with a cloth, calmly hunting, and killing again and again also made his martial arts and magic improve rapidly, and accumulated experience in the face of the enemy, he began to learn to use mental power to probe the unknown situation, and the location of the enemy, although the range is extremely limited, but repeatedly received miraculous results.
In this way, day by day, because not every time you can meet enemies, so some targets have to be checked several times, sometimes to run to several places in one night, and finally most of these enemies are eliminated by him, and each time he will loot the family assets of these people, and unknowingly accumulate a large amount of wealth.
But at this time, there was a problem, the target suddenly disappeared, it seems that these people have noticed and suspected their identity, after all, these people have a constant connection with him, if this is the case, you should be more careful in the future, as for the current enemies have disappeared all at once, it is very likely that they are hidden, and it will be even more difficult to find them, it is better to go to Yongan first to find Cheng Tianhua to settle accounts, if he also runs away, it will be bad.
On this day, Sheng Xuan was walking on the road to Yong'an City, and suddenly encountered a team of sentinels to check, fortunately Sheng Xuan was wearing beggar clothes at this time, and there was some sludge on his body, and the sentry kicked in disgust, "Get away from the smelly food." Then he continued to set up a card to check other passers-by.
At this time, it was already early winter, and the weather began to gradually become cold, after Sheng Xuan entered the city, he secretly changed into a cloth suit, and then bought some goods casually, dressed as a merchant, and then found a small inn to stay, as soon as he entered the door, Xiao Er came up enthusiastically, "Oh, little brother, is this a tip or a hotel?" "Live in the hotel" Sheng Xuan replied coldly, "Prepare a clean room for me, preferably the one with a window on the street." Xiao Er glanced up and down, and smiled coldly, "Oh, my little brother doesn't go out often, this street is naturally not clean, if you want to be clean, it is all the guest rooms inside and not facing the street, you want to be clean on the street, this is really embarrassing for me." Sheng Xuan heard a slight sarcasm in his words, just smiled slightly, and just when the boss was not there, he reached out and took out fifty taels of silver, "You try to arrange, I will stay for about ten days, the rest is yours, and I will pay the wine money separately." Xiao Eryi's face suddenly bloomed with joy, and he grabbed the silver in his hand as soon as he reached out and said, "This, this, it doesn't take so much," and hurriedly put the silver into his arms as he spoke, "Although our store is small, we guarantee that there is a room that you are satisfied with, just now I was confused, we just have a small building that does not entertain guests on weekdays, this is specially prepared for distinguished guests like you, I will take you to see." β
As he spoke, Xiao Er reached out to take Shengxuan's package, but he held it down, "I'll do it myself." Xiao Er seemed to suddenly realize and blinked, "Oh, Chengcheng, then I will take you to see the room." In fact, Sheng Xuan was afraid that Xiao Er would see that the things inside were some rags that he bought casually, so he didn't need him to take them, so he picked up his burden and followed Xiao Er to the back.
Don't look at the store is not big, but there is a small vacant space in the middle, clean up is exceptionally clean, not far away is a two-story building, standing independently in the northwest corner, there is a tile house in the east, I think it should be the owner's residence, the location here is quiet, and when I entered the small building, I found that there was only one room on the first floor, and the downstairs room seemed to be booked out, and there was a sign hanging at the door, and Xiao Er took him straight upstairs.
Came upstairs into a living room, the cups and plates are almost all very elegant, next to the bedroom is the bedroom, the room is extremely spacious, I am afraid that the general inn does not necessarily have such a room, Sheng Xuan walked in and gently pushed open the north window, probed to see the terrain, only to see that this side is a secluded alley, at this time it is close to evening The alley has been quiet, there is no figure, Sheng Xuan nodded" Yes, that's it, I'll fix the tea and rice myself, you go and get me some water, I'll wash it, and the rest won't have to be greeted, I like to be quiet and don't like to be disturbed. β
Xiao Er accepted the silver and naturally agreed, and after a while, he and his buddies carried a large wooden barrel, and then mixed the hot and cold water, "If the guest officer has anything else, just give orders, and the little one will go down first." Xiao Er and his buddies were just about to leave, and then Sheng Xuan took out a few pieces of loose silver, "You're tired, you can drink some wine." β
The more money the better, Xiao Er hurriedly put away the silver, "The guest officer is really bold, if you have something to order, as long as you can think of it, I will definitely do it for you, and you are satisfied." Sheng Xuan smiled, "No need, you guys go down." β
After Xiao Er left, Sheng Xuan lay down in the bathtub, suddenly surrounded by warm water, his whole body was comfortable, the fatigue of the day was also swept away, he happily took a hot bath and changed into a brand new royal blue robe, and when he saw that it was twilight, he walked downstairs, and heard the shopkeeper reprimanding Xiao Er, "Don't you know that the small building is set by the General's Mansion? How can you still arrange guests inside?" Xiao Er hurriedly ran over and muttered a few words in the boss's ear, and then took out a few ingots of ten taels of silver, the boss suddenly showed a smile on his face, and the two were talking Xiao Er saw him coming over and hurriedly ran over, "The guest officer is going out?" Sheng Xuan nodded and went out without answering.
Xiao Er stood at the door and watched for a long time, muttering, "This rich man is weird, I really didn't see it at first, I didn't expect this dress to be really a son." Then he shouted to the figure, "Guest officer, we close the door here at two o'clock, don't miss the hour." β
In the end, it is an important town in Yong'an, although it is already dusk, there are still many people coming and going on the street, and most of the shops are still open, and the night light is like a starry city dotted with stars, a prosperous scene, but from time to time some city defense patrols walk through the street, so that the atmosphere is a little dignified, I believe that it must be more prosperous here before, Sheng Xuan thought in his heart, "This is the city where my brother-in-law was stationed back then." β
After turning several streets, a not very big mansion appeared in front of him, but the golden plaque on it clearly said the General's Mansion, Shengxuan looked at the environment and found that many buildings on both sides were taller than the General's Mansion, which is obviously contrary to common sense, and then looked at this mansion for quite a few years, thinking that the brother-in-law had been stationed here for more than ten years, it seems that the four sides were built later, so it seems that the General's Mansion is a little lonely, and I can't help but have more respect for my brother-in-lawγ
Since then, this general's mansion has returned to Cheng Tianhua, but it seems that he is not as greedy for money as that group of subordinates, I am afraid that he is an official fan, so he has not been excessively looted here, but this person is probably also a straw bag and is not worried about the defense of the city, otherwise he will not be so easy to get close to, and then look at the surrounding streets, this has become the center of Yong'an, whether it is a shop, a restaurant or a music hall and a green building, all of them are all around the surroundings, Sheng Xuan couldn't help but smile, it seems that this General Cheng must like the surrounding environment very much, otherwise this general's mansion would have been expandedγ
At this time, there was a whole team of soldiers guarding the front of the house, and once there was a approach, he would be driven away, it seemed that this Cheng Tianhua should be at home, and he was already very vigilant.
Shengxuan didn't get close, but found a restaurant next to it, where he could vaguely see the movement in the courtyard, so he found a window seat and sat down, and asked for a few dishes casually, feeling that if he didn't drink some wine here, he would be suspicious, so he asked for a jar of wine, tasted the dishes and felt that the taste was good, and took another sip of wine but felt like fire into the stomach, and it was bitter and spicy, and couldn't help frowning and grinning and put down the wine bowl, "What's so good about this thing." β
While eating the dishes, he carefully watched the movement of the general's mansion opposite, and found that the people inside were still very lively, and he saw the maid in front of the hall from a distance with cups and plates in and out, "Is it a guest?"
Observing carefully like this, before I knew it, it was late at night, and there were still people in the general's mansion, it seemed that the banquet was not over yet, and the guy from the restaurant here had come over and asked a few times, "Do you want to add some wine and food to the guest officer", Sheng Xuan then settled out of the restaurant.
When I came to the street, I suddenly found that the street was already sparsely populated, and I couldn't help but be surprised that I had just been negligent, and I was afraid that observing the General's Mansion in this way would arouse suspicion.
Circled around the general's mansion a few times, and found that there were a lot of guards around, the guards could be said to be impervious to wind and rain, fortunately, it was already the dead of night at this time, and there were many tall buildings around the general's mansion, Shengxuan climbed high and looked down carefully at the situation in the mansion everywhere, and also looked at the terrain in the mansion in a general way.
It wasn't until the sky turned white that Sheng Xuan hurriedly walked back to the alley behind the inn and jumped out of the window through the shadow into the room.